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Good morning. Let’s have a 1-minute quick review of the latest news on data protection, privacy, data breaches and enforcement actions happening around the world. 💡

1. “Lyca Mobile clients in over four dozen countries experienced service disruption after the company suffered a cyber attack that also potentially leaked personal information.”
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2. The French cloud gaming provider Shadow suffered an “ ‘advanced social engineering attack’ “ against one of its employees that allowed access to customers’private data.” ”The hacker, who posted about the breach on a popular hacking forum, claims to have accessed the data of more than 530,000 Shadow customers and is offering the data for sale after they say they were ‘deliberately ignored’ by the company.”
https://lnkd.in/g6vFTaBH

3. “Equifax’ s (EFX) U.K. arm was fined around $13.6 million Friday for failing to protect the data of millions of British customers in a 2017 hack of the credit-reporting company.”
https://lnkd.in/grRyyh33

4. “California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law the first bill in the US compelling data brokers to delete all personal data of state residents upon request. ”
https://lnkd.in/gFG3vNxi

5. “Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed a MOVEit data breach that leaked the personal information of current and former employees and their family members.”
https://lnkd.in/g8UFspCF